Rocket

One was the baseball place, right? How powerful that is for young hitters to hear that this is not easy.

But it also makes me think of your personality, Lance, in the same clubhouse with Rocket and Jeff Kent.

And cause I don't think Jeff Kent felt terror like that.

Like I, I, I perceived him to be like, I'm going to say, I'm going to use arrogant in the most complimentary way possible.

I mean, I would say that Kent would be one that would be, I know he projected that, but I feel like he hated baseball just like I did.

And that would, to me, tend to hint at the fact that even if he didn't demonstrate it, he was feeling some anxiety.

The Rocket, on the other hand, is a great example of somebody that...

But the Rocket's way of dealing with those situations was to go into an alternative universe where even if something bad happened, it really wasn't bad.

It

was the night the Rocket had the punt return against that college football team and it got called back with a bad penalty.

Miami? No.

Rocket and Notre Dame were going to win the 90 championship.

I see.

No, it wasn't USA.

that was.

Like 90.

Super Bowl champ, co-host of the Purple pre- and post-game show on WJZ-TV in Baltimore.

I told you I covered him in high school, him and Rocket, his brother.

It's like your favorite story of talent.

I mean, these guys...

Don't you want to hear that from a coach?

I do, and then I got a quick question for y'all.

So when y'all have Quadrion, wasn't he the missile and Rocket was the rocket? Wasn't there a joke back in the day? Yeah, no, you're right.

Wasn't his brother called the launching pad? Yeah, absolutely.

Ishmael.

That's Rocket's kid, or is that Rocket's nephew? I think it's his nephew.

Is it? I think.

Quadre.

Notre Dame will receive the start of it.

And that means the Rocket.

Will they kick it to him? He leads the nation in kick returns, having run two back for touchdowns, both against Michigan.

Four on his career he has returned for touchdowns.

But what that does is set up Tony Rice on the perimeter.

And all the big plays in college football come on the perimeter of the defense.

And sooner or later, Tony Rice will be at the end of the defense with Rocket Ismail on his corner, on his side.

That was a great hit we saw early in this game by Ned Volkar.

Uh, on this date, a couple of interesting hockey notes.

1957, Rocket Richard becomes the first NHL player to score 500 goals.

[gentle music] It's October 19th, 1957.

All eyes are on the familiar number nine, the fabulous Maurice "Rocket" Richard.

It's a regular National Hockey League game between Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Blackhawks, but it's also the night that the Rocket, hockey's greatest goal scorer, will attain the remarkable total of 500 goals.

No other player has even reached the 400 mark.

And so here tonight, early in the 1957-'58 campaign, one of the world's finest athletes scores his 500th goal.

Oh, very much so.

I think Toney's a guy that, you know, reminds me a lot of Ishmael, you know, the Rocket, you know, back Notre Dame star, you know, many years ago, the Heisman winner, who, you know, has that explosiveness, you know, a guy who could, you know, can do so many things in the end and whether it's, you know, at the wide receiver spot, is it slot spot? Is it able to do some things in the backfield? I mean, they really use him well offensively and it's, he's only one guy.

I think for Jeremiah Smith, you saw what he's able to bring to that team.

That catch he made in the end zone against Indiana was just phenomenal.